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The most cost effective is PU foam stuck unde a steel roof. For tiles you have to use sprayed PU if you want foam on the underside of the tiles. However silver foil under the tiles and insulation on the ceiling are a cost effective.
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Double Pocket Sliding Doors - where to buy?
sometimewoodworker replied to Encid's topic in DIY Forum
It’s the main showroom 57 Soi Sukhumvit 64 That’s highly unlikely as AFIK they just sell stuff for you to build. All the stuff I’ve got from them I’ve fitted myself, locks, hinges, door handles, and many others. -
Double Pocket Sliding Doors - where to buy?
sometimewoodworker replied to Encid's topic in DIY Forum
They don’t require that. You need the subframe to bolt the track onto and of course a bit over double the width of the opening. Then you get the hardware from Häfele. You will have to decide the weight of the doors and if you want soft closing or not and synced opening. Häfele has a display in their show room I fitted our doors myself, this is one of the pocket doors. -
I’ve had both a slightly undersized conventional unit with a noisy ceiling fan, a slightly undersized inverted with a silent fan and have now swapped that one into a room that had no ac and have an oversized inverter in the same room, it still has a silent fan. All three units controlled humidity well, the 2 smaller units took quite a while to bring the temperature down, the big inverter cools quickly but is very slightly noisier than the small one. I use the silent fan with the inverters as the room temperature can be higher and still be comfortable. The fan is a MrKen DC fan so has 6 speeds No. 1 or 2 is usually enough. My preference would be a silent AC with a silent fan but the Daikin is not silent, it is very very quiet but the Mitsubishi is silent. The noise level will depend on the model you get AFIK they are similar
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At 18k you are at at just under 700 BTU/sqm at 24 you are a little over 900 BTU/sqm since the prices are little different and you are getting an inverter go for the larger unit. The comments of cooling too quickly are confusing the non inverters performance where cooling too quickly would not decrease humidity but since the inverter doesn’t stop running this is no longer true. in the past a slightly under spec AC was significantly better than one that was over specified. Because the humidity control was significantly better. This is no longer true with inverters (with in reason). So buy the bigger unit, it will cope with anything you do, cool quickly and have as good humidity control as the smaller unit. The smaller unit may be enough or it may not specially after a couple of years when it drops in efficiency.
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@WaveHunterThere is no need to buy from the us as it is available for pickup today and custom order will take up to 14 days, probably less, though that may depend on exactly which you specify. As to repair, it very much depends on the item you buy if the repair is covered or not. FWIWI have had repairs on a number of MacBooks, 2 of them had so many motherboards that I got completely new machines and since the mini has virtually the same motherboard as the MacBooks there is no guarantee that similar problems may not occur
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Just a FWIW the 512Mb M2 Pro mini has the same problem as the 256Mb M2 in that they both use a single NAND chip so for sure if you get an M2 you need a 512Mb version and probably, though I haven’t seen a tear down yet, you need a 1TB version of the M2 Pro unless you don’t use much in the way of read/write work so don’t mind the single chip throttling.
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Renovating everything - buying more of everything?
sometimewoodworker replied to OneMoreFarang's topic in DIY Forum
We planned for extras and had enough to completely tile the security room with enough spare for breaking some in the future. Though since it’s mostly for storage we don’t care that we used 5 or 6 different patterns. ???? we may well have enough to tile the paint room in the future as well -
Vanishing few tourists use anything but hotels or guest houses, I know I didn’t for my first 20 years of visits. Almost certainly no average tourist does, so the requirement for a TM30 report is always the responsibility of the hotel or guest house, so as such you will probably never be told of the requirement but will almost always have a copy of your passport taken so they can report as they are required to. Having a yellow house book is totally irrelevant with regard to a TM30 report and having one makes it extremely unlikely that you are in anyway an average tourist.
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Big reduction in the electricity standing charge
sometimewoodworker replied to Bandersnatch's topic in The Electrical Forum
Give it time, and if you are using a 5/15 metre it can get to be free. -
@DrJack54 and @ubonjoe are absolutely correct. However This Is Thailand so while completely correct there are offices that do not follow the rules, so are more strict, also offices who have lest strict rules. The actual rule is that if a TM30 is required you have 24 hours to file it not 72 hours But once again TIT YMMV and individual offices have individual rules. This means that guidance (if available) needs to be tailored to the specific office you are using.
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If the trucks are driving over the new fill then you are putting more pressure on the rings, probably not much, but you still need to watch the gap. The fill by itself will be exerting pressure on the rings. So keep an eye on the gap for the next week and after the next rain storm.
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Kemrex - alternative to micro piles - any experience ?
sometimewoodworker replied to mynextgig's topic in DIY Forum
You can easily put piles beside a wall In Bangkok, as long as you use the traditional “sing jiggle sing jiggle” method, -
I assume you are going to get it compacted, as if you don’t you are likely to get 50% settlement, if you do it’s likely to be 30% settlement, so there is no point in levelling the fill off, actually you need to over fill to reduce the amount you will need to add later. And while they are compacting you need to have a careful watch on the gap between the rings and the slat wall to make sure the compacting doesn’t shift the rings.
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That works for a moderate amount of extra torque for (usually) cheaper/smaller tools, but if you have tools that are designed and made well you don’t have to do that kind of common bodge as they are likely to be designed for the job. This is an actual English screwdriver designed for a ½ AF spanner. So you can add as much torque as the screw will stand without any damage to the grip. an alternative are the screwdrivers with a square shaft like these, though they are only really useful on slot headed screws, it’s quite possible to break one of the driving faces off a Philips screwdriver with a square shaft if you have the @CrossyTM patented, gorilla attitude. ???????? 5555 or just get hungry!
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Don’t. It will fill up in time anyway, but I can virtually guarantee that if they try to fill it they will damage the slat wall.
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It is the one I’m going to get as an addition to my 2015 iMac. However it certainly isn’t that much better value than the MacBook Pro as you have to add in a monitor, keyboard, and trackpad and if you get the same quality ones you will be paying more for the Mac mini also you can’t get am M2 Max in the mini. the supply of new Apple items in Thailand is usually around 2 months later than the first world countries though if the specifications are actually the same it can be a few weeks, it was for the AirPods Pro.
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Having had a quick look there are two companies you can be sure of that I’ve seen they are Wera and Wiha both are excellent, though not cheap, and I use Wera tools. Though at ฿5,000 and up even on Lazada are too rich even for me. The no name Chinese tools may be perfectly functional and the Japanese dial gauge one is almost certainly accurate but will be a pain to use.
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Recommendations for a bore water pump with filter?
sometimewoodworker replied to grain's topic in DIY Forum
Talk to the PWA they do testing -
That probably means that you are unlikely to see much more seiilement as long as the fill was compacted when it was deposited, as 30% is around the amount of air that is usually included in the fill. If the fill wasn’t throughly compacted you might expect up to another 20% drop.